Tuesday, December 21, 2004

Dark Night of the Soul. This is the moment when it feels that all of your abilities are insufficient to reach your goal. Most people turn back at this point, and never progress to the next level. This depression, fear, terror, darkness of the soul, comes to everyone, whether they aim high or low in life. It is necessary to understand this, and to know it will happen BEFORE you actually reach the point of depression. Ask yourself the following questions: 1) The last time you were really depressed, how did you get out of it? 2) Do you know people who have dealt successfully with depression? What did they do? 3) If you are now in a positive state, what could you do to prepare for the next bout of depression? ## I promise that the answer will lie in a) your emotional/spiritual beliefs b) your mental focus c) the way you use your body (exercise, diet, rest, etc.)

About Me

For the last thirty years or so I’ve been a lecturer, coach, novelist and television writer. For the last forty years I’ve been involved variously in the martial arts, and for all my life I’ve studied and enjoyed yoga. Not that I worked at it as hard and honestly as I should have—I’d be a combination of BKS Iyengar and Bruce Lee if I had.
After publishing about three million words of science fiction (including the New York Times bestsellers The Legacy of Heorot and The Cestus Deception) and having about twenty hours of produced television shows (including The Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, Andromeda, and Stargate, as well as four episodes of the immortal Baywatch), I’ve got opinions on the writing life.
After earning black belts in Judo and Karate, and practicing the Indonesian art of Pentjak Silat Serak for the last fifteen, well, I have some opinions there, as well. And having struggled to live consciously since childhood...well, those opinions are probably strongest of all.